brainwash

brainwash (someone) with (something)

To intentionally alter someone's thoughts or beliefs by using a particular idea or method (that is stated after "with"). Commercials brainwash us with subliminal messages that make us go out and buy stuff.The cult leader brainwashed his followers with increasingly distorted information.

brainwash someone with something

to drive specific knowledge or propaganda into someone's brain, by constant repetition and psychological conditioning. The dictator brainwashed his people with lie after lie.You have brainwashed yourself with your own propaganda.

It is soon apparent, however, that in the course of the good doctor's use of hypnotic therapy, he is attempting to brainwash all involved in order to come to ``a comfortable truth'' that will mitigate the responsibility of his employer, the Roman Catholic Church.

In its Article 17, the convention unabashedly lays out a program to brainwash children via control of the media: "States recognize the important function performed by the mass media and shall ensure that the child has access to information and material from a diversity of .

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